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Beating Watson in one round definitely sets the Machines back a few weeks in their plans to be our Sovereign Dictators. Rush Holt’s credit cards will be frozen. He will be chased in the street by one of those Google no-driver black vans. And the Evil Computer Army will take him apart tendon by tendon to see what gives him the gall to stand against them.

But for now, I want to get to a really simple part of the air traffic control world. It’s the part I always want you to think about first, whenever air traffic control comes up as a topic. Especially when someone tries to convince you–the taxpayer–that we need to buy a new, expensive piece of equipment. Hold this thought in your mind and I’ll continue explaining (after the jump). It’s the runways. It’s always the runways.

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The slick Fizz project displays your Twitter and Facebook streams as if you were looking through a microscope. It divvies up your friends’ breakfast updates, cat pics and news links in live-updating cellular clusters. [From: Fizz]